In two separate incidents, a 40-year-old widow was murdered by her nephew while a 45-year-old woman was shot at by unidentified assailants in Jaffarpur Kalan and Narela areas, respectively.
In the first incident, 40-year-old Santosh’s body was found in her room at about 4.45 am. Santosh, whose husband passed away in 2010, stayed with her three children at the first floor of a building in ITI Colony. She was stabbed multiple times. Naresh, her nephew who lived on the ground floor, was found missing. Police said the motive behind the incident is still not clear. A case of murder has been registered at Jaffarpur Kalan police station.
In another incident, a 45-year-old woman bystander was shot at after three assailants opened fire following an argument with a man over rash driving in Outer Delhi’s Narela area on Thursday afternoon. Police said the woman was rushed to Raja Harish Chandra Hospital were her condition is stated to be out of danger.
The incident took place at Narela’s Pocket 11 when three men in a Maruti WagonR were allegedly ticked off for driving zig-zag. Irked, the occupants in the car whipped out a gun and opened fire on the complainant, but he managed to duck. An eyewitness told police that the assailants also fired shots into the air to threaten the people around when a stray bullet hit a woman.